CP
2011
Springer
13 years 16 days ago
2011
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we present a model for the carpet cutting problem in which carpet shapes are cut from a rectangular carpet roll with a fixed width and sufficiently long le...
AAAI
2011
13 years 22 days ago
2011
Automated feature discovery is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Although classical feature discovery methods do not guarantee optimal solutions in general, it has been r...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Empirical divergence maximization is an estimation method similar to empirical risk minimization whereby the Kullback-Leibler divergence is maximized over a class of functions tha...
TSMC
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
In this paper, we present two near-optimal methods to determine the real-time collision-free path for a mobile vehicle moving in a dynamically changing environment. The proposed de...
AMAI
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
Constraints and quantitative preferences, or costs, are very useful for modelling many real-life problems. However, in many settings, it is difficult to specify precise preference ...
PVLDB
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
The recent literature has provided a solid theoretical foundation for the use of schema mappings in data-exchange applications. Following this formalization, new algorithms have b...
JAIR
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Decentralized planning in uncertain environments is a complex task generally dealt with by using a decision-theoretic approach, mainly through the framework of Decentralized Parti...
MP
2007
14 years 6 days ago
2007
The question of nonemptiness of the intersection of a nested sequence of closed sets is fundamental in a number of important optimization topics, including the existence of optima...
SIAMSC
2008
14 years 19 days ago
2008
Abstract. In this paper, we empirically investigate the NP-hard problem of finding sparsest solutions to linear equation systems, i.e., solutions with as few nonzeros as possible. ...
PAMI
2006
14 years 19 days ago
2006
This paper describes a novel solution to the rigid point pattern matching problem in Euclidean spaces of any dimension. Although we assume rigid motion, jitter is allowed. We pres...